Welcome to my LinkedIn profile! I am Shaikh Shahbaz, a meticulous and detail-oriented Kafka and Confluent Specialist with over 6.3 years of experience in Administration and Support of Kafka, process enhancement, system Performance, and Upgrade, Installation, Patching and Deployment of Kafka. I am proficient in deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, especially on AWSIn my current role at TEKsystems Global as a Senior Software Engineer, I have Designing, deploying, and managing AWS MSK clusters to support data migration from serverless to provisioned MSK, Setting up MSK Replicator for efficient Active-Active replication and ensuring high availability, Developing (IaC) using Terraform to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of MSK clusters and related components.In my previous role as Senior Technical Analyst at Hexaware Technologies, I have Worked on Upgrade, Installation, Patching and Deployment for Kafka and Upgrade. I closely work with business stakeholders to understand their needs and solutions that meet their requirements. I worked on large scale multi-nodes Kafka cluster environments residing on AWS and Azure platform, Experience on Kafka platform setup and operation best practices Resource, Handle all Kafka environment builds, Deployment, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring, Setting AAF AUTH Verification using MechID, Set Read/Write Permissions for Topic, Add Topic Partition, Provide subscriber producer permissions and manage roles.In my previous role at Tech Mahindra, Pune, India, as a Senior Software Engineer, I worked on Publish consume messages to topics for health check, Topic creation, Topic Data cleanup, Topic Deletion, Replicator connectors using mTLS, Replicator deletion, Restarts, Resume, Fetch Config, Status etc, Check consumer lag, Reset Consumer Offset, Edit Topic Config, Schedule OS Patching through Unix VM Portal, Clear pending messages in confluent Kafka topics, Reset offset to a date or number or latest or earliest, Extract Topic metrics for total messages, bytes in and out for a Kafka Topic via Grafana.Key Technical Skills: Apache Kafka, Confluent, Kafka Connect, MSK, MSK Replicator Kafka Schema Registry, Zookeeper, Kafka Brokers, Middleware, JIRA, Confluence, Prometheus Grafana, AWS, Postman API, Error Handling, Troubleshooting, Linux, Ubuntu, AD, MTLS.Thank you for visiting my profile. Please feel free to connect, looking forward for great Opportunities !contact : +91-9175694444 +91-9762981777 skshahbaz288@gmail.com shahbazsk169@gmail.com